Reading Railroad: an Illustrated Timeline

Name: Reading Railroad: an Illustrated Timeline
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ISBN: 9781466222182

ISBN-10: 1466222182

ISBN-13: 9781466222182

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert Jones

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Today, most people think of the board game Monopoly when the Reading1 Railroad is mentioned ("Take a Ride on the Reading"). But there is much more to the history of the Reading than the fact that it's mentioned in a game. The history of the Reading is also the history of the anthracite coal regions in Pennsylvania. Anthracite was the most important industrial and home heating fuel of the 19th and early 20th century. It was the fuel that the industrial revolution ran on.The history of the Reading Railroad is the history of the rise - and bloody suppression of - the Molly Maguires. It is the history of bloody (and seemingly endless) confrontation between organized labor and the coal operators…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 8/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 50
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English